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Grade 6 · Nature science

Nature science quiz for grade 6: Light and sound

This quiz helps revise “Light and sound” in Nature science for grade 6. It has 25 questions in five categories: Sources of Light, Shadows and Mirrors, Colour and Vision, Sound, Hearing in the Dark. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 11–12
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Light and sound

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Sources of Light

  1. 100

    Which natural source of light matters most for life on Earth?

  2. 200

    Which beetle lights up its own body on summer nights?

  3. 300

    Does the Moon make…

    In the game
  4. 400

    Roughly how fast does…

    In the game
  5. 500

    About how many minutes…

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Shadows and Mirrors

  1. 100

    What forms behind an object that does not let light through?

  2. 200

    Shadows have sharp edges because light travels in what kind of lines?

  3. 300

    This device uses two…

    In the game
  4. 400

    What is this event…

    In the game
  5. 500

    A ray hits a…

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Colour and Vision

  1. 100Picture for the question

    How many colours are traditionally counted in a rainbow?

  2. 200

    What glass shape splits white light into colours?

  3. 300

    Which effect makes a…

    In the game
  4. 400

    Which instrument made of…

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  5. 500

    Which clear part of…

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Sound

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What is this tuning fork doing when it makes a sound?

  2. 200

    Where can sound not travel: through water, air or a vacuum?

  3. 300

    Roughly how fast does…

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  4. 400

    What is a sound…

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  5. 500

    Lightning flashes and the…

    In the game

Hearing in the Dark

  1. 100

    This animal hunts in the dark by "seeing" with its ears. What is it?

  2. 200

    These sea mammals talk with whistles and clicks and find fish by echoes. What are they?

  3. 300

    Which unit measures how…

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  4. 400

    What is sound too…

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  5. 500

    Which unit, named after…

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